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Article by
Gray E. Taylor, Radha D. Curpen, and Christopher
Somerville
As business moves to incorporate sustainability into a central
position in its planning and operations, our early focus at Bennett
Jones on the legal aspects of that concept offers significant
advantages to our clients. Our leading positions in dealing with
environmental management, climate change, health and safety,
aboriginal issues and corporate governance and our deep
understanding of employment, community involvement and related
social issues enabled us to see the need to integrate those
disciplines and use our legal analysis of them in assisting our
clients to appropriately deploy sustainability concepts throughout
their organizations.
Recently we have joined others in a number of sustainability
initiatives that we want to bring to your attention.
First, in our ongoing commitment to support education and best
practices for sustainability, our partner Gray Taylor will join
with members of the University of Waterloo's School of
Environment, Enterprise and Development to present
"Sustainable Development: Value Creation and Due Diligence
Protection" on Thursday, October 14, 2010 from 8:00 am to 1:00
pm at The Marriott Toronto Downtown/Eaton Centre Hotel. This timely
seminar will provide participants with the understanding and tools
to effectively:
identify the relationship between sustainable development
performance and financial indicators,
understand the sustainable development issues that frequently
damage business value and those that create opportunities for new
value creation,
lever legal principles in implementing risk reduction
strategies involving "sustainability management
systems".
For seminar information and registration details, please see the
attached brochure and contact Shelley Knischewsky of the University
of Waterloo at slknisch@uwaterloo.ca.
Also, on October 18, 2010, our partner Radha Curpen will
participate on a panel at the I.E. Canada annual conference
entitled "Looking Beyond the Obvious" at the Delta
Meadowvale Hotel in Mississauga, Ontario. Radha will address the
issue of sustainability and the law in the context of the importing
and exporting that forms the core of the business of many of the
members of I.E. Canada. Those interested in attending the I.E.
Canada conference should contact Amesika Baëta at I.E. Canada
at 866-616- 2243, ext 41 or at abaeta@iecanada.com. Please click on
the conference website link for additional information: http://www.iecanada.com/events/2010/79th_Annual/79th_Annual_Home.html.
In addition, Gray Taylor, Radha Curpen and Chris Somerville (one
of our students-at-law) recently reviewed and provided comments on
the first draft of a proposed standard distributed by the
Underwriters Laboratories Association which is designed to permit
the rating of manufacturing businesses on their sustainability
performance. The draft standard is ULE 880, Sustainability for
Manufacturing Organizations. Further information is available at:
http://www.
ulenvironment.com/ulenvironment/eng/pages/offerings/standards/organizations/
and our comments can be reviewed at: http://www. bennettjones.com/docs/ULE880Comments_
BJ.pdf
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